Althouse: Sunrise

October 16, 2023

Sunrise — 7:16.

28 comments:

Jaq said...: "If any of the classified documents mishandled by President Biden involved countries or individuals that had financial dealings with Biden family members or their related companies, the Committee needs access to that information to evaluate whether our national security has been compromised.” - Comer

We will never find out because the documents in question will never be released to Congress. Biden will attempt to run out the clock and hope for a Democratic House. You know why? Because OF COURSE those documents were related to the Biden family business!

Oh, BTW, you know who was in charge of the Penn/BIden center. Our current Secretary of State, Blinken, who gave Joe Biden a million dollar salary to not bother to show up to teach a course at Penn. This would be known as "money laundering" if a Republican did it. That would be the same Penn/Biden center where we know from Hunter's laptop that Chinese nationals had their own keys.; 10/16/23, 6:40 PM
Buckwheathikes said...: Tony Blinken flew quickly to Israel to calm tensions (promote ceasefire). Because yeah, Joe Biden funded Iran laundering bullets to Hamas.

Now Blinken and Biden are trying to keep Israel from destroying Hamas because then "there go all the ammunition contracts that the US depends on for its GDP."

When are the Israelis gong to realize that they're being HOLOCAUSTED by Joe Biden? He's literally sitting on a balcony at the White House, smoking a cigarette out of the side of his mouth, murdering all the Jews below with his shotgun who he thinks aren't working hard enough.

Not ONE SINGLE Jew has resigned from this Nazi's cabinet.

Not ONE.; 10/16/23, 9:31 PM
wildswan said...: I got my iphone 14 pro and I'm loving it but by itself it won't enable me to take pictures like the Dawn Sequence as I call it. There's a certain mind and eye that can see Wisconsin on one of its days, day after day.; 10/16/23, 9:40 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Here are the two videos I've recently watched, that I think are very important, and suggest everyone should see. Why? Because Americans don't have to change our policies about the Palestinian-Israeli situation (we subsidize for strategic reasons), but we should at least look at it, full-in-the-face, before we individually come down on one side or the other. Personally, even if I believed the heroic narrative of Israel's founding and the cartoon-like portrayal of inhumanity by their Arab opposition, I would still think the Zionists have been reduced to pure barbarity, and that's nothing to be proud of, or desire. Even Saudi Arabia's murder of a Washington Post reporter, by hacking him up in an embassy, doesn't come close.

They call us "The Great Satan" because we've earned it, if this is the best we can do.; 10/16/23, 10:10 PM
walter said...: "Blinken, who gave Joe Biden a million dollar salary to not bother to show up to teach a course at Penn."
This might be a fair exchange.; 10/16/23, 10:36 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: If “Ella’s” role is socializing an “Ese” What happens when “Ella” tries to make an “Ese” out of not an “Ese”.

Tragedy is what happens. The tragedy of the Smiths.; 10/16/23, 11:00 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: This is one of my favorite songs from my time in Europe.

It certainly beat their popular hit at the time.; 10/16/23, 11:08 PM
Big Mike said...: [Secretary of State Blinken] says that the US is aware that Hamas may try and seize or destroy such [humanitarian] aid once it enters Gaza but asserts that the US will condemn such actions if they happen and work to prevent them in the future.

“US will condemn”! By Cracky that will straighten then right out. But what’s wrong with “working to prevent it” in the now?; 10/16/23, 11:19 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Devoid of Ella’s traditional role, Jada went German shepherd Commander on her man and everybody around them.; 10/16/23, 11:27 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/16/23, 11:59 PM
BudBrown said...: I like the rorschach ones. This one's very owly.; 10/17/23, 1:29 AM
wendybar said...: This comment made me laugh!!

therealguyfaux ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
11 hours ago
"Democracy dies in darkness." -- WaPo

"WaPo is murdering journalism in broad daylight." -- Me; 10/17/23, 4:24 AM
wendybar said...: "Tim Graham for NewsBusters reported that Bret Baier was “stunned” to learn that Leon Panetta has “zero regrets” about exploiting his role as a “civil servant” and discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop story — but how is that possible?

Why would the 51 former intelligence officials who signed the fictitious document saying the Hunter laptop looked like Russian disinformation have regret? Their obvious goal was to destroy President Trump and install Joe Biden, and intentionally hide the truth from the public to accomplish the goal. How could those charged with the task of investigative reporting miss this obnoxiously obvious agenda?"

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/moderate_republican_journalists_stunned_that_democrats_shamelessly_lied_for_their_antitrump_agenda.html; 10/17/23, 5:38 AM
Kakistocracy said...: In a fraught world where populism, polarization and post truth politics appear on the ascendant and the PiS were a prime example, it's reassuring to know that the majority of Polish people want parties respectful of the rule of law, an independent judiciary, minorities and support for Ukraine.

I am pleased with the record turnout, especially in the largest cities. Voters clearly wanted change, especially younger ones.; 10/17/23, 5:59 AM
Humperdink said...: Remember Shana Louk? She was the naked Jewish teenage girl laying in the back of a Hamas truck, being paraded around Gaza being spit on by a young Gazan kid.

Mark Steyn: " The one spitting on poor Shana Louk's naked body?

In ten years' time, he'll be living in Munich, or Marseilles, or Manchester, Manitoba, Michigan...

It's the future you've made."

He's not wrong.; 10/17/23, 6:38 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Big Mike said...

“US will condemn”! By Cracky that will straighten then right out. But what’s wrong with “working to prevent it” in the now?

We are over there to get our hostages - not to get further involved.; 10/17/23, 7:21 AM
Jaq said...: By "Post truth" Rich means true stuff that he doesn't want to hear.

Back in the "Truth" era, we could believe everything that the press and the government told us, now people don't believe the government and the press anymore, so we are "post truth." 'Why would the government lie to us? What possible motive could they have? Why would the press ever lie to us? What possible motives could they have?"

It is far more likely that we are closer to the truth than that credulous age that preceded this one.

The young people in Poland are that much further removed from the crimes that the Ukrainian Nazis like Bandera, hero of modern Ukraine, committed against Poles. Ethnically cleansing that part of Poland that Hither signed over to Stalin, which was made part of Ukraine. Hundred of thousands of Jews, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Roma, exterminated to create the ethnically pure Ukraine that Bandera dreamed of. Now it's just a matter of the Russians.; 10/17/23, 7:38 AM
Josephbleau said...: “They call us "The Great Satan" because we've earned it, if this is the best we can do.”

If we are the great satan and Iran is the holy empire then the universe is really a f*cked up place.; 10/17/23, 8:07 AM
Rusty said...: Crack said.
" I would still think the Zionists have been reduced to pure barbarity, and that's nothing to be proud of, or desire."
That is what war is. Unbridaled savagry. Base, bloody and brutal. There are no rules. Only survival. Thus it is today and thus it has always been.; 10/17/23, 8:09 AM
wendybar said...: Mike Lee
@BasedMikeLee

These are the only people still opposing Jim Jordan’s bid to become Speaker of the House:

1. AOC
2. Charles Manson
3. George Soros
4. Voldemort
5. Nickelback
6. Klaus Schwab
7. Hunter Biden
8. Kim Jong Un
9. The bankers featured in Mary Poppins
10. Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán; 10/17/23, 8:52 AM
wendybar said...: A group of liberal tech tycoons came to a realization about Donald Trump and Jared Kushner on their podcast recently.

https://redstate.com/videos/2023/10/17/watch-tech-billionaires-realize-they-were-wrong-about-donald-trump-n2165163; 10/17/23, 8:57 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: If "get woke, go broke" is true, explain the success of the Barbie movie,...; 10/17/23, 8:58 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: "[Palestine] is an open air prison camp. This is an area with no economic reason to exist - it is a prison camp. And as such, there is no meaningful trade. They are dependent on the outside world for 90% other food and 100% of their energy. Those supplies either come from Israel directly as a kind of drip feed to keep the place quiet, or as international donations, and that is the whole story. So, while I don't do anything, but vomit when I see what has happened, and what Hamas has done, you hav e to admit, when the best that you can hope for is to be the mayor of a prison camp - that's the height of technological and social achievement in Gaza - you can understand why some people choose some darker paths."

- Peter Zeihan, well-known geopolitical expert and, now, well-known anti-semite.; 10/17/23, 9:14 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Tim in Vermont & Putin must be furious. Their biggest objective ally in Central Europe after Orban has just been kicked out.

Poland is fundamentally a very pro-EU and freedom-seeking country. The Russian—inspired, authoritarian PiS government was an aberration, just like Trump, Le Pen, Orban, Brexit and others. Despite every dirty trick in the autocratic rule-book, it’s gone! Going forward, EU can expect a democratic, responsible, progressive Polish government led by the former EU President, Donald Tusk.; 10/17/23, 9:48 AM
Dr Weevil said...: 'tim in vermont' thinks Ukraine is, or aspires to be, an "ethnically pure" nation, but can't explain how it's the first nation in the history of the world with a Jewish head of state and a Muslim defense minister: Rustem Umierov, a Crimean Tatar. He is, as usual, repeating bald-faced lies spread by Russian propaganda.; 10/17/23, 11:29 AM
Jaq said...: That doesn’t change the fact that Ukraine lionizes a brutal Nazi collaborator responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, which makes one wonder what their plan is if they ever get control of so much formerly Russian territory populated by so many ethnic Russians. Is the plan to do there what Bandera did to Poles when Polish land fell under his control? If you listen to them, it’s pretty clear that that’s the plan. We often say that we should listen to people when they tell us what they are and are planning to do, because it’s true.

One problem with this plan of Kiev’s is that they have taken such a population hit due to this bid to expand their ethnically pure Ukrainian state to the generous borders drawn by Russian dictators, that their dream may already be dead.; 10/17/23, 11:42 AM
Dr Weevil said...: How to tell 'tim in vermont' is shilling for Russian propaganda:

1. He insists on calling Kyiv 'Kiev'. If Ukraine were a brutal dictatorship it might make sense to use the old name, like saying (e.g.) 'Saigon' for 'Ho Chi Minh City' because the Vietnamese never voted on the name change and Ho was a totalitarian dictator and war criminal on a massive scale who doesn't deserve to have a city name after him. But Ukraine (no 'The') is a democracy, and the capital is in fact Kiev.

2. He pretends that all Ukrainians love Bandera, and that any Ukrainians love him for killing Poles. Many Americans admire Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson, but very few, if any, admire them for the Trail of Tears (AJ) or forr resegregating the armed forces and civil service and locking up the Socialist who ran against him in 1916 (WW). Similarly, some (not all, or even most) Ukrainians admire Bandera for fighting for an independent Ukraine. They don't care that he tried to get Hitler's help against Stalin, because they understand that Stalin was every bit as brutal as Hitler, in fact even more so when it comes to Ukraine. The fact that Hitler had Bandera locked up for being way too pro-independent-Ukraine doesn't seem to register with 'tim'. Am I recommending Bandera? Certainly not. I despise him just as much as I despise Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson and terrorist John Brown, but I can at least understand why some foolish people might admire these people.

3. He continues to lie about Ukraine being, or even wanting to be, an "ethnically pure Ukrainian state". Millions of ethnic-Russian Ukrainian citizens support Zelenskyy, as do damned near all of the Russian-speaking ethnic Ukrainians and ethnic Hungarian, Romanian, and Polish Ukrainians in the west and Tatars in Crimea. (Most of the political prisoners the Russians are keeping in Crimea are Tatars, though Tatars are only a small percentage of the post-Stalin population.) Of course, Ukraine is trying to kill or expel all of the invaders and local collaborators who murder, rape, and torture civilians, flatten cities, cover vast areas with mines, and desertify vast areas by blowing up the Nova Kakhovka dam. None of that is anything like the ethnic cleansing that 'tim' dreams of. The actual ethnic cleansing going on right now in occupied Ukraine is the Russian kidnapping of millions of Ukrainians to ship to Siberia so they can solve their low-birthrate problem. And the ones planning ethnic cleansing are the Russians, whose propagandists openly call for killing millions of Ukrainians, flattening Kyiv and Odesa and Kharkiv, and so on. And speaking of 'lionizing' horrible people, Russian propagandists on state TV are openly saying that Stalin didn't go far enough, and that they don't just want to reconquer the entire USSR but the Russian Empire, including Poland, Finland, and Alaska (!).

To sum up, any time 'tim' starts with "That doesn't change the fact that . . ." you know that what follows will not be a fact at all, but fantasies copied at third- or fourth-hand from Russian propaganda.; 10/17/23, 12:36 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Oops, typo in my last:
". . . the capital is in fact Kyiv, not Kiev."; 10/17/23, 1:09 PM